reach despite nothing else in the way.
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Another element that lets the game down is the map screen. The game would have benefitted with a smaller magnification of the map on which the strategy battles take place to be able to see nearby enemies and plan your next move. The need to continuously scroll around for you to take advantage of ranged attacks is tedious and also a strain on the eyes. This reviewer had to stop a couple times on the more expansive maps due to the sudden onset of dizziness. Nevertheless, once you’ve got the somewhat confusing-atfirst controls down, you will be addicted and will keep playing for as long as the main campaign will last.
The lack of an opportunity to plan for the map ahead can be frustrating. This can perhaps be explained away as being necessary to the plot of venturing into the unknown however it does remain make levels aggravating after a simple mistake like forgetting to top up your med packs or make sure everyone has gas masks bites you in the behind. The fact you can’t quit a level and return to the directory, even when frequently losing, to manage your inventory and buy necessary items like gas masks is incredibly annoying and this reviewer chose at one point to restart the game from scratch to make up for this capability error. Overall this is a very promising strategy game. With fun char-
acters and challenging levels, the game has a lot to like. It’s nice to see established intellectual properties like those of Mr. Lovecraft’s get a good treatment, and for an indie developer like Red Wasp Design to have the stones to take a chance in putting a strategy game on the App Store. This game is not without its considerable flaws, but if the developer can learn from experience and bring these improvements to later strategy games, then we could be in for a truly quality game in the not too distant future.
Dean Simons
Rating:
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138